Section thirty four, Appendix C Suggestive subjects for speeches. Footnote it must be
remembered that the phrasing of the subject will not necessarily serve for the title,
with occasional hints on treatment. One Movies and morals. Two The truth about
lying, the essence of truth telling, and lying lies that not so considered
the subtleties of distinctions required examples of implied and acted lies. Three Benefits that
followed disasters, Benefits that have arisen out of floods, fire as, earthquakes,
wars, et cetera. Four Haste for leisure? How the speed mania
is born of a vain desire to enjoy a leisure that never comes. Or
on the contrary, how the seeming hate east to the world has given men
shorter hours of labor and more time for rest, study, and pleasure.
Five Saint Paul's message to New York. Truths from the Epistles Pertinent the great
cities of to day. Six, Education and crime. Seven Loss is the
mother of gain. How many men have been content until losing all. They
exerted their best efforts to regain success and succeeded more largely than before. Eight
Egoism versus egotism nine, blunders of young phogeism. Ten the waste of middlemen
in charity systems, the cost of collecting funds for and administering help to the
needy. The weakness of organized philanthropy as compared with the giving that gives itself
eleven. The economy of organized charity the other side of the picture. Twelve
Freedom of the press. The true forces that hurtfully control too many newspapers are
not those of arbitrary governments, but the corrupting influences of moneyed and political interests.
Fear of the liquor power, and the desire to please sensation loving readers.
Thirteen. Helen Keller Optimist fourteen Back to the Farm, A study of
the reasons underlying the movement. Fifteen It was, ever, thus it ridicule
of the pessimist who is never surprised at seeing failure. Sixteen The vocational high
score value of direct training compared with the policy of laying broader foundations for later
building. How the two theories work out in practice. Each plan can be
especially applied in cases that seem to need special treatment. Seventeen All kinds of
turning done here a humorous yet serious discussion of the flopping winderbill character eighteen.
The egoistic altruist Herbert Spencer's theory, as discussed in the Data of Ethics nineteen.
How the city menaces the nation. Economic perils in massed population show also
the other side sign of the problems being solved. Twenty The robust Note in
modern poetry. A comparison of the work of Gauldsworthy, Masefield, and Kipling
with that of some earlier poets. Twenty one. The Ideals of Socialism twenty
two. The Future of the small City. How men are coming to see
the economic advantages of smaller municipalities. Twenty three Censorship for the theater, its
relation to morals and art, its difficulties, and its benefits. Twenty four
For such a time as this, Mordecai's expression and its application to opportunities in
modern woman's life. Twenty five is the Press a venal? Twenty six Safety
First twenty seven, Means and Extremes twenty eight, Rubicons and Pontoons. How
great men not only made momentous decisions but created means to carry them out.
A speech full of historical examples. Twenty nine. Economy a Revenue thirty the
patriotism of protest against popular idols thirty one Savonarola the divine outcast thirty two The
true politician revert to the original meaning of the word built the speech around one
man of the chief example thirty three. Colonels and shells, Leadership and cannon
fodder. A protest against war in its effect on the common people thirty four
Why is a militant a dispatched that examination of the claims of the British militant
suffragette thirty five Art and Morals The difference between the nude and the naked in
art? Thirty six Can my country be wrong? False? Patriotism and true?
With examples of popularly hated patriots thirty seven Government by Party, An analysis
of our present political system and the movement toward reform thirty eight The Effects of
fiction on history thirty nine, The effects of history on fiction forty The influence
of war on literature forty one Chinese Gordon a eulogy forty two. Taxes and
higher education? Should all men be compelled to contribute to the support of universities
and professional schools? Forty three. Prize cattle versus prize babies is eugenics a
science and is it practicable? Forty four. Bedevolite autocracy is a strongly paternal
government better for the masses than a much larger freedom for the individual forty five
secondhand opinions. The tendency to swallow reviews instead of forming one's own views forty
Parentage or power. A study of which form of aristocracy must eventually prevail,
that of blood or that of talent forty seven. The blessing of discontent,
based on many examples of what has been accomplished by those who have not let
well enough alone forty eight. Corrupt and contented A study of the relation of
the apathetic voter to vicious government forty nine. The moluch of child labor fifty
every man has a right to work fifty one, charity that fosters pauperism fifty
two. Not in our stars but in ourselves destiny versus choice fifty three,
environment versus heredity fifty four. The bravery of doubt doubt not mere unbelief,
true grounds for doubt. What doubt has led to examples the weakness of mere
doubt, The attitude of the wholesome doubter versus that of the wholesale doubter fifty
five. The Spirit of Monticello, A message from the life of Thomas Jefferson.
Fifty six. Narrowness in specialism. The dangers of specializing without first possessing
broad knowledge. The eye too close to one subject. Balance is a vital
prerequisite for specialization fifty seven. Responsibility of labor unions to the law fifty eight.
The future of Southern literature. What conditions in the history, temperament,
and environment of a Southern people indicate a bright literary future? Fifty nine Woman
the hope of idealism in America sixty The value of debating clubs sixty one.
An army of thirty millions in praise of the Sunday's Score sixty two. The
Baby, How the Avenue Baby holds mankind in unselfish courses and saves us all
from going lastingly wrong sixty three. Low the Poor Capitalist, His trials and
problems. Sixty four. Honey and Sting, a lesson from the b sixty
five. Ungrateful Republics Examples from history sixty six. Every man has his price.
Horace Walpole's cynical remark is not true now, nor is it true even
in his own corrupt era of what sort? The men who cannot be bought?
Examples sixty seven The scholar indiplover see examples in American life sixty eight.
Locks and keys. There is a key for every lock. No difficulties so
great, no truth so obscure, no problems so involved, but that there
is a key to fit the lock. The search for the right key,
the struggle to adjust it, the vigilance to retain it. These are some
of the problems of success sixty nine. Right makes might seventy rooming with a
ghost influence of the woman a graduate of fifty years before on the college girl
who lives in the room once occupied by the distinguished old grad seventy one.
No fact is a single fact, the importance of weighing facts relatively seventy two
is classical education dead to rise? No more? Seventy three invective against Nietzsche's
philosophy seventy four Why have we bosses? A fair minded examination of the uses
and abuses of the political leader? Seventy five, A plea for settlement work
seventy six. Credulity versus faith seventy seven, What is Huber? Seventy eight?
Use and abuse of the cartoon seventy nine, The pulpit in politics eighty
Our college is growing too large eighty one, The doom of absolutism eighty two.
Shall woman help keep house? For town, city, state, and
nation? Eighty three, The educational test for suffrage eighty four, the property
test for some of Fridge eighty five, The menace of the plutocrat eighty six,
The cost of high living eighty seven, the cost of conveniences eighty eight,
waste in American life eighty nine, The effect of the photoplay on the
legitimate theater ninety room for the kicker there are no numbers ninety one to ninety
nine one hundred. The need for trained diplomats one oh one. The shadow
of the Iron Chancellor one o two. The tyranny of the crowd one oh
three. Is our trial by jury satisfactory? One oh four? The high
cost of securing justice one oh five. The need for speedier court trials triumphs
of the American Engineer one oh seven. Girthles and gorgas one o eight.
Public education makes service to the public a duty one oh nine. Man owes
his life to the common good end of Section thirty four.